Simple Living: 5 Shifts Families Long For
Famous at Home
Josh + Christi Straub
4.9 • 653 Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
“We’re too busy,” or “There’s not enough time,” is the heart cry of many families today. Sadly, there’s also a ripple effect of the stress we feel as parents that gets passed onto our children. Our kids feel the busyness.
As we keep looking to move “Beyond the Matrix,” asking the question, “Why are we doing what we are as a family?” this episode is a conversation on the return to simplicity.
Time Stamps:
0:00 Introduction
3:00 The number one greatest parenting struggle today
5:35 The two ways we view “time” and how it influences how we live
9:00 The contemporary ways we fill our “margins”
11:24 What is the filter for how you make decisions?
15:28 Practical ways to simplify
23:03 Trying new life-giving practices in seasons
Show Notes:
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| 0:00.0 | To simplify even in those ways where it's like every day you're making these daily decisions, |
| 0:04.0 | make one, make it simple. Yes, it makes your life more boring, like making tacos every Monday or something. |
| 0:11.0 | Sure, it sounds boring and we fight that, right? |
| 0:14.0 | But I'll tell you what, we actually look forward to it. |
| 0:17.0 | Let it, try it for a season, try boring for a season and see what it does to you. |
| 0:22.3 | The reason we're so exhausted is because we're craving the next thrill. |
| 0:26.0 | So what if we did the opposite? |
| 0:27.7 | But we went simple. |
| 0:29.0 | We lived boring and we actually come back to life. |
| 0:31.8 | I won't lose hope in the night when the fire is growing down I'll just let go and I'll try help me walk this road and find my way back home |
| 0:53.3 | find my way back home. |
| 1:03.0 | Welcome back to the famous and home podcast. |
| 1:07.2 | We are in a series talking about five familial shifts you can make in your family. Last week, we talked |
| 1:14.9 | about moving from exhausted to rested. This week, we are talking about moving from busyness to simplicity. |
| 1:23.6 | I love the word simplicity. S-I-M-P-L-E simplest can be... |
| 1:29.3 | Your outfit isn't simple today. |
| 1:31.1 | My outfit is not simple today. |
| 1:32.5 | I am layered up today, as you can tell. |
| 1:35.6 | It is the middle of winter when we are recording this. |
| 1:38.9 | And I enjoy layering. |
| 1:42.4 | He's like, if I just add another coat, it'll be fine. I'm layering, uh, because |
| 1:46.9 | I have like just a sweatsh- No, you're doing great. I, but I, I am very thin. I do not, I, I, I am not |
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